Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-29
FROM ALL QUARTERS. EVERY MAN ORDERED OUT Reading EmpIoyes Again
 Quit Work.
 NONE BUT MAIL TRAINS LEFT. The Carnival Of Crime
 At Boston. EUROPE'S WAR CLOUD LIFTING. l Boston Urging Free Trade
EUROPE'S WAR CLOUD LIFTING.
Boston Urging Free Trade
 With Canada.

l VI @OAA SeOAAeSSAa0S
 READING TO BE TIED UP AGAIN. , An order Sent out for All the Men to
 1 Quit Except Those Handling United States Mail Tratns-The Road Likely be Much Embarrassed by This Un-
 expected Action.
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2S.-The Reading
 railroad employees late to-day took decided
 action to bring the company to terms. A
 notice was quietly issued this morning to the
 men all along the line to drop their work.
 At Port Richmond as fast as the different
 crews brought in their trains they left their
 positions The order to strike this time
 affects even the watchmen at the yards. All
 were ordered out by the executive committee of the employees which met this afternoon at Mutual Hall and the men generally obsyed. The men now declare their determination to fight to the bitter end. They claim to have
 received advices from Reading, Pottsville
 and other points on tue Reading system that they will have the support of the company's employees all along the line. General Mana ger Mcleod still persists in declaring that l there is no strike. The order to strike, it is 1 understood, includes all trains except those
 
 l if strictly enforced that the men intend to l interrupt passenger as well as freight trains | About five hundred Pinkert0n policemen ! have been stationed in and about the local I wharves and roundhouse at Port Richmond l They are in citizens dress. All are arm d. f Late this afternoon one hundred more were sworn in and reported to Detective Eckstein | in charge of the coal wharves and Detective McKibbon in charge of the junction and 1 Port Richmond roundhouse. Several hun- dred small but wicked looking clubs have been received at the company's offices in Port Richmond. These will be given to those employees who promise to prove loyal to the | company They are to be used for their pro- ! tection against the strikers in case any diff culty should occur. About three hundred were given out this morning to different en- ployes. The following notice was posted at Willow street wharf office tonight.
 persons who wi furnish the evidence which will persons guilty of violence to the company ys em-
 p0yes or it's property General A Around Port Richmond to night quiet pre- vails everywhere. A largely attended meet l ing of local assembly 6,285, which is the ] largest on the Reading lines, was held at Mutual Hall this evening and did not end until nearly midnight- This assembly is composed of coal handlers, stevedores and in fact all of the employees around Port Richmond, and has mem bership of nearly three thousand. All of those present were very enthusiastic and were loud in the declaration that this trouble would be a fight to finish. They claim that even though the last strike may have been ill ad- |
 vised that they have now 8 cause to fight for l the discharge of those most prominent in |
 the previous strike. One of the executive committee of the Reading employees conven- |
 tion said after the meeting that the order to I strike included every department of the sys- tenn even to the miners and the New York !
 branch, and that assurances had been re-
 ceived that it would be generally obeyed.
 PoTTsvILLE, Pa., Dec. 28.-Notwithstand- |
 ing the fact that the Knights of Labor leaders |
 here declare that there is general strike all I along the line of the Reading railroad there
 is no perceptible interruption of operations ]
 here. The usual complement of coal trains |
 left Palo Alto this morning, mostly manned |
 by noa- union crews and brotherhood engi- ueers. There is great excitement, however, I
 owing to the new complications that have !
 arisen in regard to the strike. Chairman Lee l
 of the Knights of Labor executive committee |
 has been here since last night l
 and all the morning was engaged in sending 1
 notices to the different assemblies in this dis trict calling them out until definite under | standing with the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company be obtained The or der will probably not be needed until after I
 the meeting of employees has been held in | Reading tomorrow.
 
 employs thirtyAfive engines and crews here, and out of this number not a single crew re- ported for duty this morning Trade is practically at standstil as far as the Read ing railroad is concerned. Matters are look ing serious. READING, Pa, Dec. 28-The officials here
 do not apprehend any great difficulty with the miners on the ground that with them as with the railroaders the strike has caused division of sentiment on the subject of strik xL.x f- to eight hundred employees of the Reading road along the line have lost their positions because they had either refused to obey the company's orders or had helped to foment and encourage the strike. Fully fifty per cent. of the crews passing through this city are new men. This afternoon nearly two hundred coal and freight engineers, brake- men and 6remen called to Reading, paid of and discharged for the part they took in the strike. A great division of sentiment will probably be developed at the convention of Reading railroad em- ployes which has been called to meet here ! tomorrow evening. Some of the prominent labor leaders discharged in Philadelphia will be present and present their side of the case. The delegates from Reading and other places who have refused to partici pate will urge a quiet submission at this ! time, while there are others, particularly \ from the coal regions and Port Richmond, | who say they will advocate fighting it out l and paying the company for what they look | upon as unfair dealing. ! The latest strike reports indicate that 8 | reaction is setting in and that the Reading l company will not be able to fill the places of their striking employees as easily as they | anticipated. There is serious trouble at ! Shamokin, Pottsville, Palo'Alta and Mahonoy Plain. Everybody connected with the ser ! vice struck at these stations today and ! freight and coal traffic is virtually blocked. | ST. CLAIR, Pa, Dec. 28.-Net single coal \ train started out on the Trackvilie branch this morning. The Reading company em- ! ploys some twenty. five crews and engines on eighteen hundred cars of coal daily The men are apparently firm.